New Marvel Legendary Vehicle Breaks Magic’s Most Broken Format

Last updated on June 18, 2026

The Fantasticar | Illustration by Maxim Ruabtsev

We just might have gotten one of the most powerful format breaking cards of all time in a Marvel Super Heroes commander precon. It's a combo machine, and it does it with style, but is it too good? No one wants a ban right off the bat, but in this case it might be an unfortunate necessity.

The Fantasticar

The Fantasticar might be the way the Fantastic Four get around in the comics, but in Magic it does a whole lot more than that. This legendary vehicle is a 4/4 flying for 3 mana, but it notably does not have a crew cost, meaning it's just a dud artifact. However, its ability fixes this, allowing you to turn it into a creature whenever you cast a noncreature spell. Well that's great, but a 3 mana artifact that's sometimes a 4/4 flyer is hardly anything to write home about, so what's the deal?

As you might have guessed (or read on the card, it's right there) it's that second ability that makes this card worth talking about. When you cast your fourth noncreature spell in a turn, you can sacrifice The Fantasticar to create four 4/4 constructs with flying and haste. That is absurd if you ever get to do it, but just how possible is it to pull it off? Would you believe me if I told you that you could do it on turn one in vintage?

The Combo

Vintage is a format that is no stranger to fast mana. Whether it be Black Lotus, Dark Ritual, or Mana Crypt, if you need mana fast, there's a way to get it. However, the question quickly becomes one of how to leverage that mana. As many threats as there are, there are just as many efficient answers in such an old format, and simply dumping your mana into a big dummy like Platinum Angel (not that a vintage player would ever do that) is a very quick way to lose a game. You want to be resilient, and have hard to interact with threats that come down fast and pressure your opponent immediately. Enter: The Fantasticar.

You can cast it on turn one with Mishra's Workshop. That's the easiest way at least, as you can also cast it with some combination of a mox such as Mox Jet or something like Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mox Diamond, etc. Once you do play the car, you just need to cast four noncreature spells. Notably, it doesn't have to be on the board when you cast all four of those spells, as it only cares about the fourth in a turn. Also, this counts towards that number, as it's a noncreature spell, so playing Mana Crypt, Mox Sapphire, The Fantasticar, Mishra's Bauble (or something like that) will result in the car triggering and you getting four 4/4 hasty fliers to immediately chunk your opponent for 16 damage.

The upside of this combo is that it checks the boxes of being fast and difficult to interact with once it's happened. Your opponent might be able to remove one of the tokens, but certainly not all four if you've managed to do this one turn one. They're almost certainly dead on the next turn.

Granted, this combo is not without its weaknesses. If you build a deck entirely around this combo, then it's reliant on a card you simply might not draw. Sure there are ways to find it such as Demonic Tutor or Enlightened Tutor, but that's just another hoop to jump through. Ideally, this is a shell that slots into a deck that's already playing Mishra's Workshop as well as all these other cheap artifacts. Luckily enough, that deck exists.

Wrap Up

The Whizzer, Classic Speedster | Illustration by Julian Totino Todesco

Cards that get printed in non-standard legal sets don't have a good track record of being balanced in old formats like vintage. The cards that get designed for four player formats or for more casual magic are sometimes too well tuned, or simply too well positioned to leverage the advantages of old formats such as fast mana and tools to improve consistency that aren't available elsewhere. The Fantasticar seems like yet another example of this, and if it proves to be as effective as I suspect it will be, then we might see it ending up on the banned/restricted list in a format that almost never puts cards there. Only time will tell what fate holds in store for The Fantastic Four's beloved vehicle.